Data corruption is the damage of information caused by various software or hardware failures. The moment a file is corrupted, it will no longer function accurately, so an app will not start or will give errors, a text file shall be partially or entirely unreadable, an archive will be impossible to open and unpack, etc. Silent data corruption is the process of info getting harmed without any acknowledgement by the system or an administrator, which makes it a significant problem for web hosting servers as fails are much more likely to occur on larger hard disk drives where vast volumes of info are placed. In case a drive is part of a RAID and the information on it is duplicated on other drives for redundancy, it is more than likely that the damaged file will be treated as a standard one and will be copied on all the drives, making the harm permanent. A huge number of the file systems which operate on web servers nowadays often cannot identify corrupted files instantly or they need time-consuming system checks during which the server is not working.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Website Hosting

The integrity of the data that you upload to your new website hosting account will be guaranteed by the ZFS file system that we work with on our cloud platform. The majority of hosting service providers, including our firm, use multiple hard drives to keep content and considering that the drives work in a RAID, the exact same information is synchronized between the drives at all times. In case a file on a drive gets damaged for whatever reason, however, it's likely that it will be copied on the other drives since other file systems don't offer special checks for that. Unlike them, ZFS applies a digital fingerprint, or a checksum, for each file. In case a file gets corrupted, its checksum will not match what ZFS has as a record for it, which means that the damaged copy shall be substituted with a good one from another drive. Since this happens in real time, there is no risk for any of your files to ever get damaged.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Your semi-dedicated hosting account will be resistant to silent data corruption since all of our storage servers employ the efficient ZFS file system. What makes the aforementioned unique is that it employs checksums, or digital identifiers, to ensure the integrity of each file. When you upload content to your account, it will be placed on several redundant drives operating in a RAID i.e. the files shall be the same on all disks. All of the copies of a specific file will have the same checksum on all drives and ZFS will compare the checksums of the duplicates quickly, so if it discovers a mismatch, which would indicate that one of the copies is corrupted, it'll substitute that file with a good copy from one of the other drives. Even if there is a sudden power loss, the data on the servers won't become corrupted and there will not be any need for a time-consuming system check which other file systems perform following some failure, lengthening the time needed for the server to go back online. ZFS is the sole file system which can truly protect your content from silent data corruption.